16 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Wednesday, May 22. 1985 the numbers cj« STRIKE TALK HEATS UP scorecard TUESDAY SOFTBALL Spruce City men Holiday Inn 2 NCO 0 Loggers 3 Tabor Lake 2 Men'i slo-pitch Moons 13 Target 10 Queensway 7 Brewers 6 Women's senior Sundowners 20 Ft. George 0 Sund. II 8Coach's0 lex.) Men's recreation Pace-Y’head 12 Mainline 4 Men's merchant Blake’s 5 Edge-Electron 4 Croft 9 Sunland 3 Women's commercial Op. Eng. 13 Simon Fraser 4 Simon 9 Friendship Centre 2 Women's slo-pitch Aetna 15 P.G.-Pinedale 4 Klassic 6 Tabor Blues 1 Mixed recreation Harvey’s 18 Lakewood 17 Coll. Hghts. 8 Y'head 4 Citizen 17 Midight 15 Mixed slo-pitch D&M’s 20 Spruce Country 13 Minor boys Midget Clandonald U Ted Doyle 6 Minor girls Midget-bantam Col. Bit. 20 Elks 17 Eagle Ridge 18 IWA 12 Teamsters 14 Hepwood 11 Squirt R and R 14 Sintich 6 BASEBALL Senior men Port.-How. 6 Klassic 5 Babe Ruth Prep Twins 8 Pirates 7 Little League Freeman Park Clarmac 11 Graham's 0 P.G. East Chieftain 20 P.G. Motors 8 Nechako PPWC 4 Clandonald 3 SOCCER North Cariboo Labatt’3 2 Team X 0 W 17:42. Second Period No scoring Penalties - Jackson Edm i elbowing, fighting major i. McClelland Edm. Hospodar Pha. Paterson Pha i fighting majors) 1.59. Gregg Edm iholdingi 9 51. Marsh Pha iholdingi 1213. Hospodar Pha i high sticking 116 30 Third Period 2. Philadelphia. Ron Sutter 4 5:56 3 Philadelphia. Kerr 9 iPou-lim 8 07 4 Edmonton. Lindstrom 3 i Messier. Gregg i 16 52 5. Philadelphia. Poulin 3 i Carson. Ron Sutter i 19 39 Penalties - Jackson Edm i roughing i. Tocchet Pha islash-ingi 4 29. Jackson Edm ihook-ingi 13:47 Shots on goal by Edmonton 8 414-26 Philadelphia 171212—41 Coal - Edmonton Fuhr: Philadelphia: Lindbergh Referee - Van Hellemond Attendance — 17.191 La baft's on top softbai' Labatt’s Pastry Chef took over first place in the North Central Senior Soccer League Tuesday with a 2-0 win over Team X. Alfonso Miranda converted a cross from the right side in the 15th minute to give Labatt’s an early lead and Graham West fired in a hard shot from just inside the 18-yard-line to finish the scoring in the 35th minute. Randy Quinn of Team X had two good chances to put the ball past goaltender Sergio Beccera of Labatt’s, but the winners’ defence was too tight and they preserved their shutout. Soccer year starts The Prince George women’s soccer league began Tuesday at Connaught Field, with all four teams playing their first games. In initial games, the Strikers beat the Spruce Caps 4-2 and Cariboo Chrome downed the Selects 5-1. The league’s scheduled runs until July 2, with each team playing the others four times. The league has a tournament tentatively scheduled for mid-summer. The next games are played Thursday at Connaught, with the Spruce Caps playing Cariboo Chrome at 6 and the Strikers meeting the Selects at 7:30. League spokesman Jackie Collins said the league still needs a few players and a coach for one of its teams. For more information, call Collins at 962-9812. Blind bowlers triumph A Prince George blind bowling team has won the Western Canadian championship for the second straight year. Harold Aitchison, Lome Aitchison, Johnny Flatt. Duncan Corliss and Melvin Rollison combined to win the Martin Trophy at the western finals in Regina in April. Aitchison says the results were mailed out following the tournament and he received them only Tuesday. The fivesome bowled 2,614 for three games to take the title. Aitchison says he and several other blind golfers are looking for coaches to help prepare for the blind golf championship in August. Anyone interetested can call him at 562-4883. Blackburn eases to win Blackburn ran up an 18-0 first-half lead and coasted to a 24-10 victory over Lakewood Tuesday in Prince George high school rugby. Carter Isenor led Blackburn with 14 points, with Shawn Tyacke and Trevor Matters each adding four. Greg Parnell and Mantag Hothi had four each for Lakewood. The next game is Tuesday, when College Heights plays Blackburn at 4 p.m. MEN’S SLO-PITCH W L F A P Cariboo Chrome 3 0 57 10 6 Runners World 3 0 32 1 6 P G. Engine 2 1 21 13 4 Y'head Canadians 2 1 26 29 4 Moons 2 2 43 37 4 Pacific Brewers 2 2 21 16 4 Western Star 2 2 29 51 4 Mr. Big and Tall 1 0 13 7 2 Video Pop 1 2 25 30 2 Labatt’s 1 2 14 28 2 Queensway Turbo 1 3 20 48 2 Sunland Subaru 0 2 5 14 0 Target Transport 0 3 12 27 0 SENIOR WOMEN Fraser Division Sundowners 2 0 24 3 4 Porter-Howat 1 1 9 9 2 Coach's 0 1 5 6 0 Nechak-Ft. Geo 0 2 3 30 0 MEN’S RECREATION W L T F A P Pace-Yellow head 4 1 0 39 31 8 Ft George Falcons 3 0 0 13 2 6 CC Industries 2 1 0 23 8 4 Fraser Stationers 2 1 0 23 15 4 Mainline Plumbing 2 2 0 18 21 4 Baldy Hughes 1 2 0 16 35 2 Astoha Inn 0 3 0 11 22 0 Ambms Logging 0 4 0 12 21 0 MERCHANT MEN W L T FA P Croft Hotel 2 0 0 18 9 4 Blackburn 2 0 0 15 6 4 Sunland Subaru 1 1 0 20 21 2 George Coulling 1 1 0 14 15 2 Blake's Moving 1 1 0 11 13 2 JJ's Pub 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edge-Electron 0 2 0 16 22 0 Partie Sound 0 2 0 5 13 0 COMMERCIAL WOMEN W L T F A P Op Engineers 3 1 0 44 33 6 Simon Fraser 2 2 0 33 38 4 Casey's Steak Pit 1 0 0135 2 Bencher Logging 1 1 0 32 24 2 Cougarettes 1 1 0 14 21 2 Friendship Ctr 0 3 0 24 44 0 WOMEN S SLO-PITCH w L F A P Klassic Auto 3 0 37 12 6 Aetna Canada 2 0 40 5 4 Spruceland Esso 2 0 28 13 4 Sunland Subaru 1 0 12 2 2 Fifth Avenue 1 1 26 29 2 Analog Angels 0 0 0 0 0 Tabor Blues 0 2 3 18 0 P.G. Yamaha 0 2 16 32 0 Dumont Dolls 0 2 9 36 0 P.G./Pinedale 0 2 7 31 0 Auto MIXED RECREATION A Division W L P Klassic Auto 2 0 4 Computer Concepts 2 0 4 College Heights Pub 2 0 4 GT Financial 1 0 2 Pollard Equipment 1 1 2 Yellowhead Inn 1 2 2 WD Mobile 0 1 0 Trena Eagles 0 1 0 0 2 0 Body Works 0 2 0 H Divlnion Haney s Muffler 3 0 ( Westwood Pub 1 0 2 Pump House 1 0 2 Citizen 1 0 2 Alfredo s Pub 1 1 2 Lakewood 1 1 2 Cariboo Steak 0 1 0 Centre City Petrol 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 MIXED SLO-PITCH w L T P Legion Flames 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 2 Roto-Hooter E.K. Williams Paul Oesch BCR Spikers Inland Gassers Nich. Chev-OIds Dand M s P.G Petrolleum Team Sports Killer Watts * Firefighters Brass Rail Spruce Country OK Tire 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 110 2 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 Midget division Spruce Credit Ted Doyle Northern Sports College Chiefs Clandonald College Totems MINOR BOYS W L T P 7 1 0 14 7 2 0 14 3 3 3 4 3 5 0 6 0 6 0 6 16 0 2 MINOR GIRLS Bantam-midget Col. Bitulithic Elks Bencher Bargy's Coulling P.G. Coll. 1 P.G. Coll. 2 Peewee Eagle Ridge Teamsters Hepwood IWA Int. Ware Squirt C.I. Disposal Sintich Granco Contracting R and R Holdings L T P 0 0 10 1 1 5 1 0 4 2 0 4 2 1 3 4 0 2 4 0 0 1 0 10 2 0 6 3 0 4 4 0 2 3 0 2 baseball SENIOR MEN Joe Martin Astoria Inn Labatts Porter-Howat NCO Klassic Auto W L F ACBL 1 0 12 3 • 1 0 10 2 • 1 0 11 7 • 1 1 13 16 h 0 1 2 10 I 0 2 8 18 14 Toronto Baltimore Detroit New York Boston Cleveland Milwaukee AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pft.CBL California Minnesota Chicago Kansas City Oakland Seattle Texas West Division 23 14 622 - 21 15 582 112 20 16 556 2*2 19 16 543 3 17 20 459 6 15 22 405 8 14 21 400 8 23 15 605 - 21 17 .553 2 19 16 543 2>2 19 18 514 3>2 18 19 486 4>2 16 21 432 6*2 II 26 .297 11*2 Baseball rhetoric resumes Associated Press NEW YORK - Last fall, when negotiators for major league baseball owners and players began work on a new labor contract, both sides said an agreement could be reached by the start of the 1985 season. How times have changed. Opening Day is over with virtually no progress towards an agreement. Mandatory drug testing has become a new — and potentially explosive — issue; the rhetoric has heated up, and the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players’ Association will meet Thursday in Chicago to give their ne- S)tiators strike au-orization. Another baseball strike like the one that shut down the game for 50 days in 1981 might not be probable, but it’s more likely now. ‘‘I’m significantly more pessimistic about the chances of avoiding a strike than JAYS STRETCHLEAD Guidry baffles Mariners Tuesday Results Toronto 4 Chicago 3 Cleveland 6 Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 5 Texas 0 Boston 9 Minnesota 1 New York 11 Seattle 1 California 2 Detroit 1 ill innings i Oakland 3 Baltimore 2 ilO in-ingsi Chicago 020 10(1000— -1 70 Toronto 200000011- 4 7 0 Bannister. Nelson 161. Agosto 181, James il-li 181 and Fisk: Leal. Lamp 161. Lavelle il-Oi i9i and Martinez. Whitt i9i HR. Chi - Gamble i3i: Tor -Barfield i9i Kansas City 200010020—5 J1 Texas (10000000(1- 0 31 Black 14-31 and Sundberg: Tanana i0-5i. Stewart i9i and Brammer HRs KC - Brett 2 i7i. Sundberg i4i Milwaukee 120 100 000— 1 III Cleveland 030 020 Oh- fi 101 Higuera il-3». Kern 161. Ladd 181 and Moore. Creel. Clark il-Oi i3i. Thompson iSli 161 and Bando. HR: Cle — Jacoby i3i. New York 100 013 102-11131 Seattle 000 100 000— I It Guidry <4-3i. Cooper i9i and Wynegar: Langston i54i. Ba-rojas ill. Stanton 161 Vande Berg 171. Nunez i9i and Kearney. HR: NY - Henderson i3i. Detroit 00000010000— I It Calif 000 000 01001- 2 7 0 Morris. Hernandez i2-1i i9i and Parrish. McCaskill. Moore i3-1i i9i and Boone HRs Det - Gibson 161: Cal - Schofield i5i. Baltimore 100 0101100 0— 2 7 2 Oakland 100 010 000 1-3 61 Boddicker i6-2i and Dempsey; Krueger. Howell il-2i 1101 and Heath HR Balt -Ripken 181 NATIONAL LEAGl'E East Division W L Prt.CBL New York 23 12 .657 - Chicago 21 14 600 2 Montreal 22 16 .579 2>2 St. Louis 18 19 486 6 Philadelphia 15 22 405 9 Pittsburgh 12 24 .333 11*2 West Division San Diego 21 14 600 — Cincinnati 21 17 553 1*2 Houston 20 18 526 2l2 Los Angeles 18 21 462 5 Atlanta 16 21 .432 6 San Francisco 14 23 .378 8 Tuesday Results Cincinnati 5 Chicago 2 Montreal 6 Los Angeles 1 Pittsburgh 3 Houston 2 St Louis 6 Atlanta 3 Philadelphia 6 San Francisco San Diego at New York. ppd . rain Los Angeles 000 (HO 00(1— I 32 Montreal 000 302 Olx- 6120 Honeycutt i2-4i. Diaz 181 and Scios’cia. Gullickson iM>. Reardon iS9i <7i and Fitzgerald HR Mtl - Wallach i2i Houston 001 000 001- 2 31 Pittsburgh 200 010 00\— 3 60 Scott i2-2i. Calhoun i5i. Ross 161. Smith 181 and Bailey: Rueschel il-Oi. Candelaria 1S61 181 and Pena Cincinnati 001 1000:10- 3 62 Chicago IKK) 000 200- 2 60 Stuper. Hume il-2i i7i. Power 1S81 181 and Kmcely: Fontenot. Frazier il-li 1S1. Brusstar 181 and Davis. Lake ill. Moreland «9» HR. Cin -Perez i2i. soccer NORTH CARIBOO SENIOR W L T F A P Labatts 2 0 0 4 1 4 Team X 1 1 0 2 3 2 Kickers 0 10 12 0 P.G. Croatia 0 10 12 0 transactions BASEBALL American League California Angeli recall first baseman Daryl Scomers from Midland of the Texas League Street drags start season The 1985 drag racing season at North Central Raceway Park be-gins tonight with street vehicle bracket racing. The Wednesday night street drags were a popular feature at NCRP until they were cancelled two seasons ago. Action begins at 6:30 tonight. Admission fee is $10 for car and driver and $2 for any others. For more information. call NCRP at 112-967-4444. by Canadian Press The electricity failed in the Seattle Kingdome but that didn’t stop Ron Guidry from sizzling Tuesday night. The New York pitcher tossed three-hit ball for eight innings and struck out six to lead the Yankees to an 11-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners in an American League baseball game delayed for 23 minutes when a bank of lights in left field went dead. Guidry, 4-3, retired the first nine Seattle batters. The only run the Mariners scored came in the fourth when the power problem developed. After the delay, the Yankee southpaw walked Jack Perconte and yielded a single to Phil Bradley. Pitcher back, another out? by Canadian Press The revolving door leading to the pitching mound at Three Rivers Stadium had hardly stopped swinging with the return of Rick Reus-chel when John Candelaria started to plan his exit. The veteran Reuschel, just recalled from the minors, and Candelaria combined for a five-hit-ter as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Houston Astros 3-2 in a National League baseball game Tuesday night. Reuschel celebrated his return to the majors by checking Houston on one run and three hits in 7% innings in his first major-league start since Aug. 10. "I’m just glad to be here,” said Reuschel, who has battled through four years of shoulder Eroblems. “It’s a pleasure to go out there and e able to throw without pain, to do the things that I can do.” Candelaria, who surrendered a run in the ninth before notching his sixth save, was of a different mind. “It’s time to move on,” he said in requesting he be traded. Reuschel retired 15 of the first 16 Houston batters but fell four outs short of what would have been only his second complete game since 1981. Candelaria relieved him with two out in the eighth. Told of yet another request by Candelaria to be traded, Pirates’ manager Chuck Tanner said he would not get rid of the temperamental pitcher unless he received adequate compensation. Reuschel, 36, a right-hander who has spent 12 years in the major leagues, was 6-2 with a league-best 2.50 earned-run average with Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League before joining the Pirates. He struck out two and walked two. In other games Tuesday, it was the Cincinnati Reds 5 Chicago Cubs 2, Montreal Expos 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Philadelphia Phillies 6 San Francisco Giants 5, and St. Louis Cardinals 6 Atlanta Braves 3. San Diego’s game in New York was rained out, the first National League rainout of the season and second such postponement in the major leagues in as many nights. The game was rescheduled for Aug. 23 as part of a twi-night doubleheader. Expos 6 Dodgers 1 Tim Wallach hit a sacrifice fly and a two-run homer and Hubie Brooks had three hits as Montreal hammered Los Angeles. Bill Gullickson, 5-4, scattered five hits over 61-3 innings, and helped his cause with two hits, including a two-run double. Jeff Reardon finished for nis ninth save. The third-place Expos trail the leading Mets by 2'/2 games in the NL East. Reds 5 Cubs 2 Dave Parker’s tie-breaking double keyed a three-run eighth inning as Cincinnati dumped Chicago. Parker, whose double extended his hitting streak to 13 games, is having one of his best seasons in years. He is hitting at a .345 clip with seven homers and 30 runs-batted-in. Phillies 6 Giants 5 Glenn Wilson drove in two runs as Philadelphia took advantage of San Francisco’s shoddy fielding. The Phillies scored three unearned runs off loser Atlee Hammaker, 0-4, in the fifth. The game was delayed by rain for an hour and six minutes after the first inning. Cardinals 6 Braves 3 Rookie Vince Coleman’s first major-league homer, a solo shot, helped St. Louis withstand Bob Horner’s two homers en route to victory over Atlanta. Horner had a solo homer to start the second inning and a two-run blast in the sixth. His two home runs marked the 19th time in his career he has accomplished the feat. The Dodgers visit Montreal tonight at 7 on CBC French (channel 2, cable 3). Rogers not bitter MONTREAL (CP) — Steve Rogers said Tuesday his ego was bruised but he wasn’t embittered by the Montreal Expos’ decision Monday to give him his unconditional release. Rogers, the ace of the Montreal pitching staff for a decade, said the announcement caught him by surprise but 24 hours of reflection allowed him to get past the emotion and approach the news in the most positive light. “My ego was bruised, (but! I don’t look at this as a completely negative thing," he told reporters at a news conference. “In fact it may be the best thing for me. “ I want to pitch, I feel I can still pitch and I have to prove something to myself and my teammates.” Late comeback helps Porter and Howat scored twice in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat the Klassic Auto Body A’s 6-5 Tuesday in Prince George senior men’s baseball. Klassic took a 4-0 lead in the top of the first but couldn’t hold on as Porter and Howat scored three in the third and one in the sixth to tie the score. The win evened Porter and Howat’s record at 1-1, while Klassic fell to 2-0. “It took me two batters to get back into my rhythm,” Guidry said. Perconte scored on a groundout by Dave Henderson, but Guidry retired the next three batters, striking out two. Don Cooper pitched the ninth and allowed one hit, completing a combined four-hitter. Rickey Henderson drove in four runs with a homer, double and single and Dave Winfield also contributed three hits to New York’s 14-hit attack. In other games, it was the Toronto Blue Jays 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland Indians 6 Milwaukee Brewers 4, Boston Red Sox 9 Minnesota Twins 1, Kansas City Royals 5 Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 2 Detroit Tigers 1 in 11 innings, and Oakland A’s 3 Baltimore Orioles 2 in 10 innings. Blue Jays 4 White Sox 3 Jeff Burroughs singled in the winning run in the ninth as Toronto edged Chicago. George Bell opened the ninth with a double to ngnt centre, advanced to third on Jesse Barfield’s long fly to centre and came home when Burroughs lined a single just over the glove of third baseman Luis Salazar. The Jays lead the AL East, IV2 games ahead of Baltimore. Indians 6 Brewers 4 Brook Jacoby hit a two-run homer in the fifth as Cleveland recorded its third straight win. Jacoby lined his third home run of the season over the left-centre fence to give the Indians a 5-4 lead. Royals 5 Rangers 0 George Brett hit a pair of two-run homers to support Bud Black’s three-hit pitching as Kansas City blanked Texas. Black, 4-3, recorded the second shutout and second three-hitter of his major league career. He struck out four and walked three. Red Sox 9 Twins 1 Dwight Evans and Tony Armas snapped long batting slumps with home runs and Marty Barrett drove in three runs as Boston collected 16 hits. Angels 2 Tigers 1 Ruppert Jones came back to haunt his former teammates as he doubled home Juan Beni-quez in the 11th. Beniquez opened the inning with a single and went to second on a sacrifice by Brian Downing. Jones, who played for Detroit last season before signing with the Angels as a free agent, then pulled the game-winning hit down the first-base line. A’s 3 Orioles 2 Baltimore’s Mike Boddicker walked Dwayne Murphy on four straight pitches with two out in the 10th to give up the winning run. Boddicker, 6-2, suffered his first loss since April 14. The White Sox visit Toronto tonight at 7 on BCTV (channel 12, cable 11). I was a couple of months ago,” Don Fehr, the acting union chief, said last week. He made his comments after the owners released a financial statement — for the first time — claim-ing major league teams lost between $36 million and $42 million in 1984. “They’re trying to scare everybody,” he said. “This makes it tremendously difficult to reach a solution.” The latest move from the owners came Monday, when their chief negotiator, Lee MacPhail, proposed a plan that would limit salaries for free agents and other players who move from team to team by imposing a modified version of the National Basketball Association’s salary cap plan. That brought to the front another issue — free agency. The talks were expected to centre on apportioning the multi-million dollars obtained from a television contract with that took effect last season, but owners’ financial problems have dominated negotiations. MacPhail called the new plan a move “to put Daseball back somewhere in a breakeven position.” Fehr said: “It’s a step backward of the most enormous magnitude because it would do away with free agency in baseball.” Ralph Balcom for: - Financial Advice - Tax Advice - Investment Advice Call Me Today 563-6666 STENNER FINANCIAL SERVICES "The Professional Financial Planner" 1055 D 5th Ave. Indy racer packs it in INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gordon John-cock, a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, is retiring from auto racing. Johncock, 48, won a rain-shortened race in 1973 and edged Rick Mears in the closest finish in Indy history in 1982. Mental Health... keepitinmind. Canadian Mcnul Ikalih .Wh-miior D RUFIflERS WORLD BRSHETEfiLL CfifHP MAY 30th, 31st & JUNE 1st May 30th & 31st 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. June 1st — 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. PRINCE GEORGE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL Guest Coach: Bev Bland, Head Coach SFU Clansman & former National Team players. 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